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I've taken a break from this board. Its been a few months. I've droped by to read 1-2 posts then dip out, but nothing like the obsession I previously had. I'm sure most here can relate.

Anyway... living out in the world, outside our bubble here. Things don't seem to be improving much or at all. It kind of looks like the America First mindset is gone. I am no longer able to defend anything happening in the Trump admin like I used to be able to, so I just steer away from it now.

So, being detached from this for a bit, are we supposed to be waiting for some master plan to come to fruition still? It just sorta feels like we're some abused house wife saying, hes going to change.

The Great Man of History theory likely is the more realistic take on history and its ebbs and flows conceived of. Because It’s repeated time and time again. People don’t follow ideas and philosophy. They ultimately follow Leaders. The ideas and philosophy can form a bedrock. But it takes a real leader to actually galvanize people into action.

Anyone else having issues with getting the ERROR page when getting on the site or with not being able to post emoji's? Can't post emoji's for some reason unless I copy/paste them, and once in a while today, I'm having issues with the GAW site.

Happy Fight! Fight! Fight! Day frens.

Man it is good to get out amongst the people and enjoy music! Went to several concerts and world cup watch parties over the last few weeks and it has just brought joy and laughter by the boat load to my life. Get out there folks!

I'm seeing issues getting to GAW - had to use scored to post this. Attack?

I talk to God alot. Have been praying for our nation and for POTUS. For his health, his safety, his discernment, his strength, and his spiritual growth. He is wearing a lotta hats and has a lotta weight on his shoulders. I do believe God put him here at this time for this reason and that he is doing the will of God. Thank You Lord Sweet Jesus Christ for President Donald J. Trump.

How many of you learnt about ballistics from a woman who doesnt know thunder is the sound of lightening ?

58.37 spot silver.

Did someone start a war?

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Honest people don’t need many laws. Dishonest people won’t follow them anyway.

Can anybody with a background in medicine, pharmacology, or psychiatry verify if this is true? https://files.catbox.moe/jg3w7r.jpeg

I did an AI search and found a lot of information, but not the LGBT angle. https://www.bing.com/search?q=Diethylstilbestrol+(DES)&form=APIPA1&PC=APPD

Is Truth Real? If So, Can We Know It? TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2026

https://www.icr.org/article/truth-real-if-so-can-we-know-it/

by Patrick C . Marks, D. Min., and Brian Thomas, Ph.D.*

Truth matters. Without truth, no one can say for certain that anything is right or wrong, good or bad. Confusion would reign. We sometimes hear, “There’s no such thing as truth.” But if we believe that idea is true, we admit at least one true thing: that there is no such thing as truth! This does not work. It is irrational—like a round square. Since the statement “There’s no such thing as truth” refutes itself, the opposite, “Truth exists,” must be true.

Louis Pasteur, 1895 Image credit: Paul Nadar, public domain So, what is truth? Truth is an expression of things as they really are. Someone may sincerely believe that arsenic is a healthy medicine. But sincerity alone does not make something true. Arsenic is, in truth, a deadly poison! So, believing what is false can lead to serious results. Clearly, truth is important.

Some people think that whatever most people believe must be true. But many people once believed in spontaneous generation. They thought that maggots just popped into existence from rotting meat. Creation scientist Louis Pasteur tested this. He found maggots in meat accessible to flies but not in meat that flies couldn’t reach. Pasteur didn’t create a new truth. Instead, he discovered what had been true all along: life comes from life. Truth is that which corresponds to reality, whether a majority admits it or not.

Another common idea is that “You have your truth, and I have mine.” But this doesn’t work either because people can believe opposite things. For example, some people believe God is real, but others believe He is not. Opposites cannot both be true.1

Some folks think no one can truly know anything.2 They question how anyone can know they exist in the first place. But if someone says, “I do not exist,” the very first word they use is “I,” which means they must exist first to even start that statement. This idea refutes itself.

Finally, claiming that nothing is knowable is another self-defeating assertion, requiring the person saying it to know that they cannot know anything. Thus, we can know truth. Thinking and existing are obvious truths because they are undeniable. Christian apologist C. S. Lewis illustrated a test for truth. It’s like adding two numbers together. You can see if the answer is true because even though some answers might be closer to the truth than others, there is only one right answer, or one correct sum.

Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” Is this true? We would first like to make sure the Bible is true—a subject we will cover in this series. But if it’s true, then Jesus is Truth incarnate, and therefore someone we can know personally.

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More specifically, opposite ideas cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense. This is called the law of noncontradiction. It is one of several laws of logic that make our apprehension of truths, and thus thought and language, possible. They say things like, “Perception is reality.” This statement refutes itself. Stage image: C.S. Lewis Stage image credit: Aronsyne, CC BY-SA 4.0

Dr. Marks is the senior pastor at Calvary Chapel FourteenSix in Surprise, Arizona, and earned an M.T.S. in 2017 and a D.Min. in apologetics in 2020 from Veritas International University. Dr. Thomas is a research scientist at the Institute for Creation Research and earned his Ph.D. in paleobiochemistry from the University of Liverpool.